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Book Maggie A Girl of the Streets Illustrated

Download or read book Maggie A Girl of the Streets Illustrated written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1892 Stephen Crane (1871-1900) published Maggie, Girl of the Streets at his own expense. Considered at the time to be immature, it was a failure. Since that time it has come to be considered one of the earliest American realistic novels. Maggie is the story of a pretty child of the Bowery which is written with the same intensity and vivid scenes of his masterpiece -- The Red Badge of Courage. In her short life, Maggie "blossomed in a mud puddle", was driven to prostitution, and died by her own hand while still a teenager.

Book Maggie  a Girl of the Streets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Stephen Crane
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-02-17
  • ISBN : 9781520631417
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book Maggie a Girl of the Streets written by Stephen Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Formatted for e-reader Illustrated About Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The work was considered risqu� by publishers because of its literary realism and strong themes. Crane - who was 22 years old at the time - financed the book's publication himself, although the original 1893 edition was printed under the pseudonym Johnston Smith. After the success of 1895's The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie was reissued in 1896 with considerable changes and re-writing. The story is followed by George's Mother. The story opens with Jimmie, at this point a young boy, trying by himself to fight a gang of boys from an opposing neighborhood. He is saved by his friend, Pete, and comes home to his sister Maggie, his toddling brother Tommie, his brutal and drunken father and mother, Mary Johnson. The parents terrify the children until they are shuddering in the corner.Years pass, the father and Tommie die, and Jimmie hardens into a sneering, aggressive, cynical youth. He gets a job as a teamster, having no regard for anyone but firetrucks who would run him down. Maggie begins to work in a shirt factory, but her attempts to improve her life are undermined by her mother's drunken rages. Maggie begins to date Jimmie's friend Pete, who has a job as a bartender and seems a very fine fellow, convinced that he will help her escape the life she leads. He takes her to the theater and the museum. One night Jimmie and Mary accuse Maggie of "Goin to deh devil", essentially kicking her out of the tenement, throwing her lot in with Pete. Jimmie goes to Pete's bar and picks a fight with him (even though he himself has ruined other boys' sisters). As the neighbors continue to talk about Maggie, Jimmie and Mary decide to join them in badmouthing her instead of defending her.

Book Maggie  A Girl of the Streets

Download or read book Maggie A Girl of the Streets written by Stephen Crane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under the pseudonym of Johnston Smith, this novella was Stephen Crane's first, large venture into the publishing world. Rejected by several publishing firms, Crane self-published this work. Although it wasn't received well by the public at the time, this early work of Crane is important in relation to his later notoriety as an author

Book Maggie  a Girl of the Streets

Download or read book Maggie a Girl of the Streets written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maggie  A Girl of the Streets

Download or read book Maggie A Girl of the Streets written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive, annotated edition of Maggie is based on Crane's original 1893 text and provides instructors with everything they need to teach the work in its historical and cultural context. Over 175 pages of documents are organized into thematic units on late-nineteenth and turn of the century American society to give the reader a context for Maggie. The various chapters in this edition cover topics such as tenement life; shops, saloons, concert-halls; working women from the perspectives of others; working women tell their own stories; prostitution; realism; and slum fiction.

Book A Study Guide for Stephen Crane s  Maggie  A Girl of the Streets

Download or read book A Study Guide for Stephen Crane s Maggie A Girl of the Streets written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Stephen Crane's "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Book Maggie  a Girl of the Streets

Download or read book Maggie a Girl of the Streets written by Stephen Crane and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book George s Mother

Download or read book George s Mother written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box  Too

Download or read book Geraldine Pu and Her Lunch Box Too written by Maggie P. Chang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet spunky, funny, and friendly Geraldine Pu as she takes on a bully and makes a new friend in this first book in a new Level 3 Ready-to-Read Graphics series! Geraldine Pu’s favorite part of school is lunch. She loves her lunch box, which she calls Biandang. She can’t wait to see what her grandmother, Amah, has packed inside it each day. Then one day, Geraldine gets stinky tofu...and an unexpected surprise. What will she do? Ready-to-Read Graphics books give readers the perfect introduction to the graphic novel format with easy-to-follow panels, speech bubbles with accessible vocabulary, and sequential storytelling that is spot-on for beginning readers. There’s even a how-to guide for reading graphic novels at the beginning of each book.

Book Maggie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Crane
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-10-27
  • ISBN : 9789176370483
  • Pages : 46 pages

Download or read book Maggie written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAGGIE: A GIRL OF THE STREETS is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude. The work was considered risque by publishers because of its literary realism and strong themes. Crane - who was 22 years old at the time - financed the book's publication himself, although the original 1893 edition was printed under the pseudonym Johnston Smith. After the success of 1895's The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie was reissued in 1896 with considerable changes and re-writing. The story is followed by George's Mother. MAGGIE was published during the time of industrialization. The United States, a country shaped by agriculture in the 19th century, became an industrialized nation in the late 1800s. Moreover, "an unprecedented influx of immigrants contributed to a boom in population," created bigger cities and a new consumer society. By these developments, progress was linked with poverty, illustrating that the majority of the US population was skeptical about the dependency on the fluctuation of global economy. MAGGIE is "regarded as the first work of unalloyed naturalism in American fiction."-Milne Holton. According to the naturalistic principles, a character is set into a world where there is no escape from one's biological heredity. Additionally, the circumstances in which a person finds oneself will dominate one's behavior, depriving the individual of responsibility. Although Stephen Crane denied any influence by Emile Zola, the creator of Naturalism, on his work, examples in his texts indicate that this American author was inspired by French naturalism."

Book Maggie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Crane
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-12-30
  • ISBN : 9781676549734
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Maggie written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane. The story centers on Maggie, a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude.

Book War is Kind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Crane
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book War is Kind written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maggie

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Crane
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-07-17
  • ISBN : 9781548789848
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Maggie written by Stephen Crane and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie: A Girl of the Street By Stephen Crane

Book Facing Facts

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  • Author : David E. Shi
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 0195106539
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Facing Facts written by David E. Shi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Facing Facts, David Shi provides the most comprehensive history to date of the rise of realism in American culture. He vividly captures the character and sweep of this all-encompassing movement - ranging from Winslow Homer to the rise of the Ash Can school, from Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Dreiser. He begins with a look at the antebellum years, when idealistic themes were considered the only fit subject for art (Hawthorne wrote that "the grosser life is a dream, and the spiritual life is a reality"). Whitman's assault on these otherworldly standards coincided with sweeping changes in American society: the bloody Civil War, the aggressive advance of a modern scientific spirit, the emergence of photography and penny newspapers, the expansion of cities, capitalism, and the middle class - all worked to shake the foundations of genteel idealism and sentimental romanticism. The public developed an ever-expanding appetite for concrete facts and for art that accurately depicted them. As Shi proceeds through the nineteenth century, he traces the realist impulse in each major area of arts and letters, combining an astute analysis of the movement's essential themes with incisive portraits of its leading practitioners. Here we see Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., shaken to stern realism by the horrors of the Civil War; the influence of Walt Whitman on painter Thomas Eakins and architect Louis Sullivan, a leader of the Chicago school; the local-color verisimilitude of Louisa May Alcott and Sarah Orne Jewett; and the impact of urban squalor on intrepid young writers such as Stephen Crane. In the process of surveying nineteenth-century cultural history, Shi provides fascinating insights into thespecific concerns of the realist movement - in particular, the nation's growing obsession with gender roles. Realism, he observes, was in part an effort to revive masculine virtues in the face of effeminate sentimentality and decorous gentility. By the end of the nineteenth century, realism had displaced idealism as the dominant approach in thought and the arts. During the next two decades, however, a new modernist sensibility challenged the fact-devouring emphasis of realism: "Is it not time", one critic asked, "that we renounce the heresy that it is the function of art to record a fact?" Shi examines why so many Americans answered yes to this question, under influences ranging from psychoanalysis to the First World War. Nuanced, detailed, and comprehensive, Facing Facts provides the definitive account of the realist phenomenon, revealing its essential causes, explaining why it played so great a role in American cultural history, and suggesting why it retains its perennial fascination.

Book Bowery Tales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Crane
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Bowery Tales written by Stephen Crane and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maggie   Oliver  or A Bone of One s Own

Download or read book Maggie Oliver or A Bone of One s Own written by Valerie Hobbs and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie is always full of questions. But a young maid in a fine lady's house isn't supposed to wonder so much, so one day Maggie is thrown out into the street with only a tiny heart-shaped locket for a keepsake. Who is the lady in the locket? A little dog named Oliver is pushing his nose along an icy sidewalk searching for his lost mistress, or at least something to eat. No matter how hard he looks he can't find either one, but he does see a girl with round blue eyes and a golden locket around her neck. The girl calls him "Lucky." And perhaps Lucky is the right name after all, for the little dog soon helps Maggie find a warm, wonderful home of her own—and one for him, too.

Book The Color of the Sky

Download or read book The Color of the Sky written by David Halliburton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-07-28 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Halliburton's book is a richly textured study of the complete writings of Stephen Crane. Offering close readings of the works within a broad framework, Halliburton sets out to explore the imaginative world Crane created in his total œuvre of fiction, poetry and reportage.